[chronic_loser]

The writer probably never took physics, and the vast majority of the readers have not, either. Converting the temps to an arcane rubric like Kelvin scale (which no one except scientists use) is rather silly for a newspaper article. I took enough physics to get me thru pchem (one year) and cannot remember when I used the Kelvin scale once in the succeeding 29 years.

You made your point. You are technically correct and most of us don't understand......., nor do we care.

[burzum]

My point is that a person who is trying to convince you that an event is occurring and is citing scientific articles should have at least a basic background in the sciences. I don't really care if you know the Kelvin scale. You aren't writing the article and drawing the conclusions.